Письма Вальтазара Богишича в русский город Тверь
VALTAZAR BOGIŠIĆ’S LETTERS TO THE RUSSIAN TOWN OF TVER

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, Irina Vorobyeva, PhD, a professor at the State University of Tver (Russia), deals with a segment of scientific work of Valtazar Bogišić, PhD, a renowned researcher of Slavic law of the 19th century. The renowned scientist was one of the founders of a scientific course in researching the sociology of law, sociology of family, comparative history of Slavic law, and legal ethnology. In the works he published in Russia, he advocated the position that legal historians should also rely on the results of comparative linguistics so as to research all the elements of legal institutes and to determine the regularity of appearance, amendments and disappearance of legal norms. He believed that Slavic people had distinctive legal institutes. This was the reason why he researched sources of common law in Russia. Little was known of that activity of his. However, it is certain that many sources he gathered in that undertaking remained unpublished. There are nearly 10,000 letters in the archives in Cavtat (Croatia), sent to him or received from various people. The letters published in this paper were written to A. K. Zhiznevsky (1819-1896), a Catholic Pole born in the Vitebsk gover-norate, head of the Museum in Tver. In these letters, Bogišić requests the right to peruse old documents and the book of proverbs in possession of the Museum. The letters which the historian Varyabova prepared for publishing speak of the breadth of Bogišić’s interests, as verified by many sources, which he thought he could use in studying Slavic laws and which other historians paid no attention to.

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